Update: Giraffas announced that they have chosen Miami-Dade to be the Brazilian chain’s U.S. headquarters adding 285 direct new jobs within three years and an initial capital investment of $8 million. Congratulations on your 285 new jobs, Miami.We recently stumbled across a headline picked up by the Huffington Post from a website…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
If one were to envision the sex life of your average shmazillionaire rapper based on their lyrical content, the picture developed would be downright obscene. We’re not talking high-budget HD cuddle porn shit. If their rhymes are to be believed, the libidinal reality of the average MC is more akin…
For this week’s cover story, I wrote about the journey of a group of 11-and-12-year-old boys playing for the 125 pound Miami Gardens Bulldogs. In 2012, the team bounced back from a season marred by a star player getting shot during practice while the league they played for was engulfed…
Luther Campbell: Screw Spike Lee
Reader Mail: Charlie Crist Should Destroy Rick Scott
It appears Miami civic leader Joe Arriola wasn’t too keen on how he’s portrayed in my recent story about his former boss Manny Diaz’s book, Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City At A Time.”Your article is also full of lies,” he wrote me in an recent email. Miami’s…
On Monday, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross shucked his $400 million plan to renovate Sun Life Stadium, the venue the city’s NFL franchise has called home for the past 26 years. During a press conference showing off a bunch of nice rendering of how the stadium will look with 3,600…
It’s enticing to bring out-of-town friends to Brickell and show them Miami’s progress as an action-packed metropolis. They can walk to one of three Publix stores or buy cigarettes, Red Bull, or whatever stimulant tickles their fancy at the shiny new 7-Eleven. Yet when the time comes to grab a…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke reviews the controversy surrounding Django Unchained. (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)Screw Spike Lee. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is a brilliant…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Swamp Wars Zero-sum game: You’ve devoted a whole piece to the business conflicts of airboat captains in the Everglades (“Sawgrass Skirmish,” Jon Tayler, January 3), but do you expect everyone to just lie down, disappear, and not compete? Maybe there isn’t enough of the pie to go around after all…
Last Friday, Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami killed a Liberty City institution. Located at NW Seventh Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Greene Dreams Shoe Repair had served the African-American community for 50 years. Tyrone Greene and his family had survived three major riots and decades of bleak…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke laments the loss of African American-owned businesses on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.Last Friday, Miami-Dade County and the…
“Fuck… my… life.” Those were among the last words of a 22-year-old MC named Freddy E. (born Frederick Eugene Buhl) who published 16 distraught Twitter updates in 107 minutes on Saturday, January 5, before killing himself. Among the speculated motives for Buhl’s suicide: A breakup with Toronto rapper Honey Cocaine…
Did you notice the Mean Girls-style action going on on Twitter this weekend? Chances are you did. But if you didn’t, Miami’s food industry gained two new handles to look after: @FoodGossip305 and @NotChowFather. Leading the anonymous secret spiller pack in late December was @MiamiFoodGossip. Short Order has tried to…
During the darkest months of winter, half of Canada flees to South Florida. So you’d think police would have some respect for the maple-syrup-guzzling visitors who fuel the local economy through spring break.That’s not what one pair of sisters from Toronto found in Miami Beach last month. The women say…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Some of the most gratifying and rewarding perks of living in Miami are the rich community traditions that have evolved with the development of the city, like grandiose celebrations of different countries’ national independence day, staying away from the beach on Memorial Day, or dressing like tremenda puta ratchetera on…
Rick Ross, John McAfee, and Jeffrey Loria in 2013
Reader Mail: The Mayans Were Wrong, but Miami Is Still Doomed
When your scene decides to find its “next superstar” on a reality television show produced by the same people behind Jersey Shore, then your scene probably needs a life raft, ’cause it’s drowning. Edmcasting.com is a website where all “producer-DJs” are invited to “start honing your skills” and apply for…
